Episode 426 - The Deeper Self Within

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Transformation, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Genius, Education, Myth, Soul, Culture

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

At this critical time on Earth, we are caught in storms of change that involve the shattering of norms and a loss of orientation as unprecedented events tear at the heart of humanity and ravage both the body politic and the face of the earth. The sense that we might just turn away from the troubling news of the day does not simply save us, for the polarization and fragmentation that trouble the outside world are also felt deeply within us.

As the rational mind reels from the cascade of irrational events, we are thrown back upon ourselves, so that the illusion that the troubles are simply outside us can keep us from finding solutions that reside deep within ourselves. When we find ourselves on the edge of uncertainty and near the road to despair, we have an essential choice. We can succumb to anxiety and fear and become a smaller self increasingly alienated from life or we can turn inwards and find connections to a deeper sense of self that naturally resides within us.

In times of radical change and potential transformation, a greater psychological awareness is required, and a deeper understanding of life is needed. Knowledge of a deep self center and source of inner guidance has been known to people throughout time. This deeper sense of self does not suffer overwhelm, but rather has surprising resources and radical resiliency. The deep sense of self knows who we are at our core and how we are aimed at life. This animating inner self makes each of us unique and essentially valuable and it tries to awaken and become more conscious to us precisely when everything else seems to fall apart.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective.
0:18.0	This episode considers how, at this critical time on Earth, we are caught
0:24.5	in storms of change that involve the shattering of norms and a loss of orientation as unprecedented
0:32.1	events tear at the heart of humanity and ravage both the body politic and the face of the earth.
0:39.3	In these times of radical change and potential transformation,
0:44.3	a greater psychological awareness is required and a deeper understanding of life is needed.
0:50.3	Knowledge of a deep self-center and source of inner guidance has been known to people
0:56.4	throughout time. This deeper sense of self does not suffer overwhelm, but rather has surprising
1:03.7	resources and radical resiliency. The deep sense of self knows who we are at our core and how we are aimed in life.
1:36.2	At this critical time on earth, we find ourselves in a deeply wounded cultural condition in which social upheaval and environmental crises create an extreme sense of uncertainty.
1:48.9	Increasingly, we are caught in storms of change that involve a shattering of norms and a loss of orientation as unprecedented events tear at the heart of
1:57.3	humanity and ravage both the body politic and the face of the earth.
2:02.6	When the issues become increasingly intractable as well as global in scale,
2:09.3	the idea that a certain person or a single belief is going to save us is proven wrong every day.
2:20.7	And the sense that we might just turn away from the increasingly troubling news of the day does not save us either. For the polarization and
2:27.4	fragmentation that troubled the outside world are also felt deeply within us.
2:38.3	The waves of radical change in upheaval outside us easily become overwhelming emotions inside us.
2:43.3	And as accepted patterns dissolve,
2:45.9	we all become more vulnerable to feelings of insecurity,
2:50.5	anxiety, and fear even if we live in relatively
2:54.2	secure places. As the rational mind reels from the cascade of irrational blows coming from
3:03.1	outside ourselves, we are thrown back upon ourselves, so that the illusion that the troubles
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